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Reading Jullien’s book on Chinese art* I find a certain tendency sympathetic: to speak of something “big” which is not opposed to something “small”. I’d like to invite you to think of forces which push and pull without attacking and blessing other bodies; like a force which is not conceived in terms of clashes and strikes.

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Duchamp: These young artists definitely want more than just painting. Degas said this about Braque and Picasso. Today, we are allowed to do so much more. I feel entangled, endangered, handicapped by the possibilities to act and to perform as an artist.

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I’m skeptical. Contemporary artistic practice is a self referential system. It’s a game of recombinations. Its relation to the art market obstructs the chance of any critical approach to the regulation of today’s society.

Duchamp: You’re jealous. Because as a writer you don’t have the chance to sell your works.

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Magnetising coils and Plasma of Wendelstein 7-X

The history of Chinese painting and the history of Chinese research on magnetism converge in the word dao. I doubt that the dao is useful for contemporary artistic practice.

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Magnes: There was a time when people conceived me as a sort of key. A key to experiences of infinity, of the universe, of the sublime.

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Realometer: Given that it makes sense to speak of origins and starts: When did calculation start? It must have started with inscription, with carving.

Natel: With what we today call graphical interfaces. What about tattoos?

Realometer: First man carved into his own flesh, then into the ground apart from him.

Jabès: Singing chants challenges inscription and writing.

Realo: Texts are frozen waves, which are set into movement by reading and copying. Copying a text is a form of creating an atmosphere, of tuning in.

Magnes: Don’ t be silly, let’s think of ways to avoid strict rules and oppositions like good and bad.

Duchamp: A charming way could be to signal how oppositions and rules evolve. Where does the rectangle come from, why and how did mankind start to draw lines?

Realo: How brave and interesting, sorry but I prefer to watch Magneto.